Author name: Tom Bigglestone

Friendships – how to make them, maintain them, be good at them – are incredibly important for children. Darren Chetty’s new picture book, “I’m Going to Make a Friend” is about a child who, impatient to make a friend in a new place, builds a friend of their own. It’s a beautiful, brilliant book that […]

This week, we wanted to send out a session we’ve been using a lot recently, inspired by something we first shared in February 2019. There are 9,472 of you who were already subscribers back then, but we hope you won’t mind being sent a revamped version! It’s on the theme of “evacuees”, a common topic

This week, a philosophical dilemma starting with dog food and ending up in the realms of human happiness.   A Dog Food Dilemma Imagine you have a dog called Crumble. Crumble seems a perfectly happy dog. Like most dogs, Crumble eats the same healthy dog food, day-in, day-out. It’s nutritious, and just the sight of you